If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think everyone should have a personal mission to leave the Earth a better place for them having lived in it and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I agree that we should go back to the moon and on to Mars. We should treat all objects in the solar… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My goal is not to shove information into your head. It's to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“When you organize extraordinary missions, you attract people of extraordinary talent who might not have been inspired by or attracted to the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reaction to the progress… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
While we may lose track of certain goals intermittently throughout the decades, I think we as a nation can be nimble when… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“At least once a week, if not once a day, we might each ponder what cosmic truths lie undiscovered before us, perhaps… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I've said multiple times that the world's first trillionaire is going to be the person who exploits the resources of asteroids, the natural resources… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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